Question

I’m trying to make a query, to find out if a player is in a match, and if his status isn’t quit (6). The query below isn’t working though. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM matches WHERE 
        (player1Name = '$name' AND player1Status != 6) || 
        (player2Name = '$name' AND player2Status != 6) || 
        (player3Name = '$name' AND player3Status != 6) ||
        (player4Name = '$name' AND player4Status != 6) ||
        (player5Name = '$name' AND player5Status != 6) ||
        (player6Name = '$name' AND player6Status != 6)
        "); 

Answer 1

Both OR and || are legit as it says here.You could try PDO format as recommended here:

The DB connection is like this (with your db details, of course):

$dsn = "mysql:host=127.0.0.1;dbname=reportslave1";
$username = "root";
$password = "";
try {
    $DBH = new PDO($dsn, $username, $password);
}
catch(PDOException $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage();
} 

The prep work like this:

$STH = $DBH->prepare("SELECT * FROM matches WHERE 
      (player1Name = :name AND player1Status != 6) OR
      (player2Name = :name AND player2Status != 6) OR
      (player3Name = :name AND player3Status != 6) OR
      (player4Name = :name AND player4Status != 6) OR
      (player5Name = :name AND player5Status != 6) OR
      (player6Name = :name AND player6Status != 6) 
    ");

$STH->bindParam(":name",$name);

The call is then made as follows.

try {
  $STH->execute();
  $STH->setFetchMode(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
}
catch(PDOException $e){
  echo $e->getMessage();
}